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I have met many people who have grown old. As they grew old, for example, they saw their handwriting become more and more shaky. The handwriting became shaky; they could no longer write properly, and it was precisely in their handwriting that they had grown old. They might have had a handwriting in which they wrote, let's say, Lehfeld (clear, distinct), and then they wrote: Lehfeld (shaky). But then, in the last days before their death, it turned out that they could write in a certain clear handwriting again; they could suddenly write well again. I have met many people who had regained their former ability to write clearly before their death. It has also been observed in numerous cases – I am not just sharing my own observations in this area, but well-attested observations that have been made – that people who have learned some language as a child – as a child they may have been in some foreign country, learned a language and forgot it again; that does happen; let us assume that as a forty- or fifty-year-old man, they had absolutely no opportunity to communicate with anyone else in this language – suddenly, a few days before their death, they begin to speak this language quite understandably again. It came out again! Yes, you see, these are very significant phenomena. What is actually going on here? This is what happens: when a person dies, his physical body, that is, one part of his being, remains on earth; it dissolves into the earth, is destroyed by the earth. I have already told you that the next part of the human being, the etheric body, gradually dissolves into the general cosmic ether a few days after death. And then, the astral body and the real self remain for the human being to pass through the spiritual world. They then pass through the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":373,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/352/1924-02-20/p012","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"A Spiritual Scientific View of Nature and Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA352/English/SOL2024/19240220p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Now, as a person grows older, he becomes weaker and weaker and can no longer properly access his physical body. But not only that, but all kinds of things are deposited in the physical body itself. And the result of this is that the person can no longer use his fingers properly. He becomes clumsy, trembles, instead of making firm strokes when he writes. When a person is close to death, the etheric body begins to separate from the physical body. There is a loosening. Sometimes this can happen a few days before death; sometimes it happens at the last moment. It cannot be said that one should no longer try to heal a person whom one has observed for days before his death, that he could also die; on the other hand, what has become loose can be joined together again. One must always, as long as a person is alive, try to heal him under all circumstances. But the fact is that in many people the etheric body loosens for days before death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":343,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/352/1924-02-20/p013","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"A Spiritual Scientific View of Nature and Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA352/English/SOL2024/19240220p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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He must serve the physical body through the etheric or astral body. It is quite correct to say in the vernacular: “Something is loose in him” - something is loosened. The people sometimes speak very correctly because an instinct for the supersensible is present in the people, and in such old folk sayings one should not see something contemptible, but something that is absolutely true. When the etheric or astral body of a madman has become loosened and thus strong, then, as a madman, he is in the same position as someone whose etheric body has already become loosened because he is dying in a few days. And when he becomes stronger in the etheric body, he can write better again. When he becomes stronger in the astral body – because everything that one has forgotten is in there – then he draws out of the astral body what he has forgotten and can again speak the language he used to speak.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":310,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/352/1924-02-20/p014","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"A Spiritual Scientific View of Nature and Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA352/English/SOL2024/19240220p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Ich habe viele Menschen kennengelernt, die alt geworden sind. Indem sie alt geworden sind, haben sie zum Beispiel ihre Schrift immer mehr und mehr zitterig werden sehen. Die Schrift wurde zitterig; sie konnten nicht mehr recht schreiben, und man merkte gerade an der Schrift, daß sie alt geworden sind. Sie hatten früher vielleicht eine Schrift, wobei sie schrieben, sagen wir: Lehfeld (scharf, deutlich), und dann schrieben sie: Lehfeld (zitterig). Dann aber, die letzten Tage vor ihrem Tode, stellte sich heraus, daß sie wieder in eine gewisse scharfe Schrift hineinkamen; sie konnten plötzlich wiederum gut schreiben. Ich habe viele Menschen kennengelernt, die ihre früheren scharfen Schriftzüge vor dem Tode wiederum bekommen hatten. Ebenso ist in zahlreichen Fällen beobachtet worden - ich teile Ihnen da nicht gerade eine eigene Beobachtung auf diesem Gebiete mit, aber gut beglaubigte Beobachtungen, die gemacht worden sind -, daß Menschen, die als Kind irgendeine Sprache gelernt haben - als Kind sind sie vielleicht in irgendeinem fremden Land gewesen, haben eine Sprache gelernt und haben sie wieder vergessen; das kommt ja vor; nehmen wir an, sie hätten so als vierzig-, fünfzigjähriger Mann durchaus keine Möglichkeit gehabt, in dieser Sprache sich mit irgend jemand anderem zu verständigen -, plötzlich ein paar Tage vor ihrem Tode anfangen, in dieser Sprache wiederum ganz verständlich zu reden. Es kam wiederum heraus! Ja, sehen Sie, das sind doch sehr bedeutsame Erscheinungen. Was geht denn da eigentlich vor? Dieses geht vor, daß der Mensch, wenn er stirbt, seinen physischen Leib, also das eine Glied seines Wesens, für die Erde zurückläßt; das löst sich in der Erde auf, das wird in der Erde zerstört. Vom nächsten Glied seines Wesens, dem Ätherleib, habe ich Ihnen gesagt, daß er ein paar Tage nach dem Tode sich allmählich im allgemeinen Weltenäther auflöst. Und dann bleiben vom Menschen noch zurück, um durch die geistige Welt zu gehen, der astralische Leib und das eigentliche Ich. Die gehen dann durch die geistige Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":383,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/352/1924-02-20/p012"},{"locus":"GA 352/1924-02-20/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Da findet ja eine vollständige Trennung der einzelnen Glieder des Menschen statt. Und derjenige, der dafür ein Auge hat, kann schon beobachten an jemandem, dessen Tod nahe ist, wie sich die verschiedenen Glieder, physischer Leib, Ätherleib, astralischer Leib, voneinander lösen. Nun, was ist das, wenn einer seine Schrift ändert ein paar Tage vor seinem Tode? Ja, meine Herren, mit dem physischen Leib schreiben wir nicht! Womit schreiben wir denn eigentlich? Wir schreiben mit dem Ich! Wir bedienen uns des physischen Leibes nur als Werkzeug des Ichs, wenn wir schreiben. Und unser Ich, das wird ja nicht alt! Mit Ihrem Ich sind Sie heute noch so jung wie Sie geboren worden sind. Das Ich wird ja nicht alt. Der astralische Leib wird auch nicht in demselben Maße alt wie der physische Leib. Aber der physische Leib ist es, dessen man sich bedienen muß als Werkzeug, wenn man schreiben will, Also der physische Leib, der muß mit seiner Hand die Feder ergreifen. Nun wird der Mensch, indem er alt wird, immer schwächer und schwächer, und er kann nicht mehr recht an seinen physischen Leib heran. Aber nicht nur das, sondern im physischen Leib selber lagert sich allerlei ab. Und die Folge davon ist, daß der Mensch seine Finger nicht mehr recht gebrauchen kann. Er wird ungeschickt, zittert, statt daß er feste Striche macht, wenn er schreibt. Ist nun der Mensch dem Tode nahe, dann lockert sich schon der Ätherleib vom physischen Leib heraus. Da geschieht eine Lockerung. Das kann zuweilen ein paar Tage vor dem Tode geschehen; manchmal geschieht es im letzten Augenblick. Man darf nicht sagen, daß man etwa einen Menschen, dem man tagelang vor seinem Tode ansieht, er könnte auch sterben, nicht mehr versuchen sollte zu heilen; es kann wiederum das, was sich gelockert hat, zusammengefügt werden. Man muß immer, solange ein Mensch lebt, unter allen Umständen versuchen, ihn zu heilen. Aber die Sache ist doch so, daß bei vielen Menschen tagelang vor dem Tode sich der Ätherleib lockert.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":329,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/352/1924-02-20/p013"},{"locus":"GA 352/1924-02-20/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Nun, wenn sich der Ätherleib lockert, dann wird der Mensch stärker. Daß der Mensch stärker wird, wenn sich sein Ätherleib lockert, das können Sie auch noch aus etwas anderem sehen. Es gibt eine Sorte von Verrückten, die entwickeln eine ungeheure Stärke, eine ganz außerordentliche Stärke. Sie könnten oftmals erstaunt sein über das, was ein solcher Verrückter an Stärke leisten kann. Nicht nur, daß die Prügel, die er verabreicht, furchtbar viel stärker sind als diejenigen von andern, sondern Möbelstücke, bei denen es keinem Menschen einfällt, daß er sie heben kann, die hebt zuweilen ein Verrückter mit Leichtigkeit. Also Sie sehen, da tritt etwas Merkwürdiges ein, was einen solchen Menschen von einem normalen Menschen unterscheidet. Was tritt beim Verrückten ein? Nun, beim Verrückten ist der Ätherleib immer etwas locker, oder der Astralleib ist gelockert. Nun ist der Mensch durch den physischen Leib nicht gerade stark, sondern schwach. Er muß den physischen Leib bedienen durch den Äther- oder Astralleib. Man sagt ganz richtig im Volksmund: «Es ist eine Schraube bei ihm los» - es ist etwas gelockert. Das Volk spricht zuweilen sehr richtig, weil ein Instinkt des Übersinnlichen beim Volke vorhanden ist, und in solchen alten Volksaussprüchen sollte man nicht etwas Verächtliches sehen, sondern etwas, was durchaus stimmt. Wenn nun der Verrückte seinen Äther- oder Astralleib gelockert hat und dadurch stark wird, so ist er eben als Verrückter in derselben Lage, in der einer ist, dessen Ätherleib sich schon gelockert hat, weil er in ein paar Tagen stirbt. Und wenn er im Ätherleib stärker wird, kann er wieder besser schreiben. Wenn er im astralischen Leib stärker wird — da ist ja alles drinnen, was man vergessen hat -, da zieht er dann aus dem astralischen Leib heraus, was er vergessen hat und kann wiederum die früher gehandhabte Sprache sprechen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":296,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/352/1924-02-20/p014"}],"beads":[{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}